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Jaane Tu!!
I saw Jaane tu yesterday - Saturday the 5th July. However I missed the start 20 minutes of the movie unfortunately, due to a heavy traffic. Got to tell you, it's an awsome movie but to write about the movie, I've planned to go and see the movie again on coming Saturday!
I'm not gonna watch Lovestory 2050. So, will have to wait to write about Jaane Tu, atleast till saturday!
When I think filmy!!
“My patience level is seamless”. I was wondering one day whether this was a myth in my mind or was it really true with me. At times in difficult situations, when I really felt like giving up, some inner power would prompt me to carry on and I would. Initially, I could never understand what it really was. However time and now, it has happened that I have overpowered the power of my weaknesses. I tried to look into this to find out what it was that inspired me to come up with a fight against the odds.
Every one of us has an inner self that prompts during those difficult moments when one really need to guide one's self to the right path. Hence, giving up easily would only be an act a loser would do. I believe in destiny, but I also believe I can carve my own way to the future.
I am not sure if whatever you just read has made any sense to you or not but in short; I would just like to mention that you should think a lot more times than you would before giving up on anything in life. You will definitely make it there, where you want to be. And hence, when I feel, my patience level is seamless, I believe it’s not a myth and that, it’s true.
Losing is not the end of it; trying just one more time gives you another chance to win until you see that you have won. I would appreciate if you guys can express your opinion about being patient and trying on and on till you achieve success as we all know, success never comes easily.
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The Happening!
"This movie is gonna freak you out"; a common line in few of the reviews I read about "The Happening". Ofcourse it's a Manoj Night Shyamalan movie and has to be something different.
Despite bad reviews, I personally liked his movies "The Village" and "Signs". Also "The Sixth Sense" for obvious reasons had become my favorite movie. So I thought lets see "The Happening." To be frank, the movie came no where even close to freaking me out. I was expecting a lot more, a lot of thrill out of it. I expected a bit too much but, Shyamalans earlier movies did play a big role in me building up such a high expectation from this one.
It starts with people beginning to kill themselves on a summer day at Central Park New York. Then at a short distance from the Central Park, a lot of workers at a construction site start committing suicide by jumping off the building. Where everyone is unsure about the reason of such incidences, the occurence of the same was spreading very fast.
Initially it is speculated that there could be terrorist group behind this. But the speculation is soon disregarded, with the number of incidences going higher and spreading through out the populated areas of America.
It then turns out that the Plants have risen to take revenge against the humans. The plants have begun to emulate an airborne toxin which is responsible for impacting human brains and causing them to commit suicide.
I really do not want to go into the performances by the actors as their acting looked a lot amateurish to me. Overall, I didn't enjoy the movie as much as I thought I would.
Mere Baap Pehle Aap! (MBPA)
Priyadarshan's got it right again! I would love to go against the other review writers and not call this movie any lesser than a good movie to watch.
MBPA starts off with a song with Om Puri dreaming about a babe dancing on a beach. He plays a character named "Madhav" who's wife ran away right on his wedding day and hence he's looking for a bride for himself at a considerably old age.
"Janardhan", played by Paresh Rawal, has raised his two kids alone. The elder son is already married and stays separately with his wife and a kid. The younger son, "Gaurav" played by Akhsaye Khanna has taken over all the responsibility of his father's business.
Janardhan has a past which is unknown to his kids. In his young days he was in love with his childhood friend Anuradha played by "Shobhna". However due to family reasons they couldnt get married. Where Janardhan gets married to someone ele and lives a settled life, Anuradha, is still single and waiting for Janardhan.
"Shikha", played by Genelia D'souza used to be a classmate of Gaurav during their college days is now back from USA and wants revenge from Gaurav for an incidence which had Gaurav ragging her and chopping her hair. She plans and executes a prank which has Gaurav almost pull his hair out. And this is how they meet and become friends just to fall in love by the time it's the end of the movie.
However, the mainline story revolves around how Shikha and Gaurav come to know about Janardhan and Anuradha's past and how they plan to make sure that Janardhan and Auradha get married after staying away from each other for so long.
Paresh Rawal and Akshaye Khanna share an awesome chemistry portraying the unconventional father-son relationship beautifully. Also, Priyadarshan includes a small twist in the story with the entry of Naseeruddin Shah who plays the role of Shikha's father.
As far as the performances are concerned, Paresh Rawal, Akshaye Khana, Om Puri, have delivered performances as one would expect from them. They've done a really good job and do justice to their characters. Genelia D'souza looks fresh and acts well too. Shobhna, Manoj Joshi, Rajpal Yaadav, Archana Puransingh with comparatively smaller roles have done a good job too.
One shouldn't expect an out and out nonsense comedy out of MBPA. It has moments which will make u laugh out loud but this story has a serious side too. MBPA is very much a watchable movie.
Sarkar Raj!
 I'd been to the theatre expecting another gripping movie as good as "Sarkar" the predecessor. I can say that, to an extent I wasn't disappointed. Although the movie wasn't really as close to reality as "Sarkar" was, it is definitely interesting to watch. I enjoyed the movie overall, but the second half was dragging a little too much!
 One can't complain about the performances I'm sure. Amitabh Bachchan is THE SUPERSTAR of the millenium. With so many movies he has been doing characters so varied that its unbelievable how he can bring each of the character to life. Abhishek's acting was decent enough. When together on screen, the senior bachchan steals the show. Aishwarya acts well too. RGV should stick to this style of movie making instead of re-makes.
 I didn't really concentrate on the movie's music. The background score was basically Govinda; Govinda; throughout. It's a watchable movie.
Bhoothnath!
 Nath Villa, an infamous haunted mansion in Goa. Every one is too scared to even pass by that place. People believe the place is occupied by the ghostly spirit of Kailashnath (played by Amitabh Bachchan) ready to trouble anyone who would visit the same.
The movie starts with a scary sequence where the ghost scares out a young couple who gate crash into the mansion. The whole sequence is indeed a little scary and for once, you’d feel as if you are in for a horror movie. But, you already know before hand that it’s a kid’s movie.
 Banku (played by Aman Siddiqui), a very mischievous kid moves into the mansion with his parents Aditya Sharma (played by Shahrukh Khan) & Anjali Sharma (played by Juhi Chawla. Soon after moving in Aditya who works as a Marine Engineer, has to leave for the cruise liner. This lives Banku and his mother Anjali, alone in the mansion.
Banku’s image has been portrayed right from the start as a mischievous prankster who isn’t scared even of the ghost residing in his house. He gives the ghost a name, Bhoothnath. The few comic scenes involving Anthony (played by Rajpal Yadav) and the school principal (played by Satish Shah) gel very well with the movie.
 While in the first half you get to see how Banku & Bhoothnath become friends, the second half shows Kailashnath’s tragic story. There’s a bit of a twist in the story when Kailashnath’s son Vijay comes back from USA and decides to sell off the mansion. To know what really happens after this, you should go and watch the movie.
Bhoothnath looks like a good debut for Director Vivek Sharma. All the actors have chipped in with good performances. However, I felt like Juhi acted a bit loudly and her voice didn’t sound original.
 While the kids might definitely like the movie, it definitely has something to offer to the elders too. I would term this movie as a complete family entertainer. Although a bit slow at a few moments, Bhoothnath was fun to watch.
P.S. I don’t really know if I can term this as a flaw or not, but, one of the scenes where Banku falls down from the stairs and hurts himself, Bhoothnath tries to catch hold of him but he’s not able to hold Banku’s hand as he’s a ghost. Banku’s hand just passes through Bhoothnath’s hand. However, in the very next scene, they show Bhoothnath hugging Banku in the hospital. If he could touch and hug Banku, why couldn’t he save him from falling? Perhaps that’s the only unacceptable part of the movie for me.
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Tingya!
 Tingya is a story about an eight year old boy, who loves his family-bull named Chitangya as much as he would love his elder brother. Tingya is two months younger than Chitangya and both have grown up together. The movie also puts some light on the lives of the rural farmers and the reasons which force them to commit suicide.
 It starts with the village farmer Karbhari, going into the flash back about how he had to sell off Chitangya to a local butcher. Chitangya falls into one of the leopard traps and in this accident, injures his hind leg badly. This injury makes it very difficult for Chitangya to pull the plough and he falls unconscious when Karbhari is once ploughing the land for cultivation. Karbhari is now a worried man as he’s already bought the potatoes for cultivation and ploughing had to be done by any means. Also, this was impossible without a pair of bulls.
 Along with the life of Karbhari’s family, the movie shows the life of another family, Rashida’s family. Rashida and Tingya, being of a similar age group are best friends. Their friendship is shown in a very cute and touchy manner. Rashida’s family involves her mother, father, grandmother and grandfather. Her grandmother, “Nani” as everyone calls her is already very old and can seldom walk by her own. Her grandfather, who is shown coughing badly all the time in the movie, also, has a drinking habit. When Rashida asks him about the alcohol bottle, he tells her that it was his medicine for cough.
 Once Nani falls down while walking and injures her self very badly. Her health then on, keeps on deteriorating. On the other hand, Karbhari decides to sell off his injured bull to the local butcher in the market. He cannot take a loan from the village Sahukar as he needs to pay off the previous one. Tingya is absolutely against this decision. When he asks his father about the reason why he decided to sell off Chitangya, his father replies saying Chitangya was useless for them now and that they need to sell him off to get some money so that they can buy a new young bull who can work. Tingya is taken aback by this and he decides to get a doctor to check the bull. He walks, runs, takes a lift from people on the road and some how manages to reach the town.
 Karbhari was always against the idea of calling medical help for Chitangya. At this stage, a lot of questions arise in the mind of Tingya. He’s not able to understand why people take care of Nani so much when she’s ill and cannot work? And, why they don’t care so much for Chitangya? Why don’t they hand over Nani, to the local butcher when even she cannot work anymore? Why is his father selling of Chitangya who has always served his family and been helpful.
 When Tingya learns that even the doctors cannot help cure Chitangya, he is very scared about losing the bull. He also realizes that there was no way he could win over the argument against the elders. Karbhari finally takes the bull to the market. What happens next? You should watch the movie to get to know.
A lot of small but touchy moments and incidences have been woven into the main story. You’d really feel for the characters and their feelings.  The kids, Sharad Goekar (Tingya) and Tarannum Pathan (Rashida) are brilliant child artists. The parts of the story which shows different phases of their friendship are done very cutely. The rest of the cast also has put up very good performances.
 Mangesh Hadawale has done a very good job at direction portraying various emotions beautifully. Shot at beautiful locations of Maharashtra, this movie is really very lovable. I would recommend you listen to the song “Majhay aabhaal tula”.
No wonder, why, it has already bagged nine awards. Do watch this one.
A very filmy incidence!
"Excuse me", said a strange voice. As I looked behind to check on the person, he spoke again, "Can I have a little time of yours?" I could see a very shabby looking guy with a dirty shirt and an even dirtier trouser. His partly broken and red teeth made it obvious that he consumed tobacco heavily. At the very first thought, I wanted to avoid any conversation with him but I wondered how, such a guy could speak English so fluently. I kept on walking and the guy kept walking by my side.
“Tell me what, but quickly, I am in a hurry” I warned him and being skeptical, I asked him to walk a little away from me.”
A little more walk and he begun, “I am not what I look like. I see that you are a decent and educated person and I thought that you will understand my problem. This is why I decided to speak to you. Even I am a well educated guy.”
“Can you cut the crap and come to the point?” I interrupted with a little harsh voice. I obviously found it really strange to walk besides such a guy as the people around were looking straight at us. As I continued listening to him, I pretended that I was ignoring him.
He continued, “I used to work for a MNC as a Sales Executive. I even had a well settled family. My people and I stayed together in (couldn’t hear the place). I have even worked for a company in Malaysia and have always been honest all my life. But, how unfortunate that today I have nothing. I lost the job, lost the family and eventually everything.” He was talking in a very good accent and very fluent language.
“What exactly you do you want from me?” I interrupted again. “Please come to the point and tell me your purpose of talking to me. I said.”
He kept on talking about his life and past. Most of whatever he spoke was inaudible due to the noise of the traffic passing by. I could understand very little of it. I did not wonder anymore about what he was talking and said, “Just tell me how I can help you? And what do you want from me?”
“I’m hungry” he said and again added, “I just want food.” I now wondered for a while but kept walking as he followed by my side. I wanted to test the genuineness of whatever he said. “I can buy you food. What do you want to eat?” I told him.
He replied, “I am a toothless guy and I can only eat rice.” He then did “EEE” to show me his teeth with his mouth opened wide. I avoided looking at him and enquired, “Where can I buy rice for you, over here?” He replied, “We may not be able to find rice here. Can you come with me to Khar station? There are a few restaurants that serve rice at reasonable rates.”
I said I did not have so much time to go all the way to Khar station with him, considering that we were in Santacruz. “If you can give me only 20 Rs I can buy myself a plateful of rice”, he suggested.
I told him there was no way I would give him money. As if he was looking forward to bargain, he began to plead for 10 Rs. I knew this was going to happen. I had it in mind, not to help this fellow and ultimately I didn’t.
“Sorry there is no way I can help you.” I said.
He still kept walking with me saying he was very hungry and that it was only a question of 10 Rs and also added that it would not be a big deal for me. “Wow” I said to myself, “as if I had a money tree.”
“I am myself walking all the way from Chembur to Malad just to save money. (I lied a bit over here) Just because I look decent doesn’t mean I have a lot of money and that parting with a bit wouldn’t mean anything to me. You are healthy and all right and above all educated. Look for a job and earn rather than begging," I told him.
“I am not begging, I just need a little help from you.” He interrupted and again added, “I have no proof of my background and so it’s not easy for me to get myself a job.”
I wanted to get rid of this guy so I spoke a little more harshly, “Go to a post office, there are many people waiting to get forms filled help them and earn. You don’t even need to apply for that. Now please don’t walk with me, I am not going to help you with money”
“Thanks even for listening to me. God bless you” he said, and walked away. And I walked on, wondering how some people can resort to begging even when they’re capable of earning a living.
Gandhi my father!
 I would term this movie as a BOLD attempt, to tap a subject, not many would have dared to. Congrats, to Anil Kapoor & Firoz Abbas Khan on doing so. The film tries to bring out the complicated relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son Harilal Gandhi.
 Wonderful performances by the lead actors really make the movie worth a watch. Darshan Jhaveri, as Mahatma Gandhi, Akshaye Khanna, as Harilal Gandhi, Shefali Shah, as Kasturba Gandhi and Bhoomika, as Harilal’s wife Gulaab, have put up really good and touchy performances. Even the sets and the typical feel of the Gujarati culture is depicted perfectly.
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